Quotes from Sidney Sheldon

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

Nothing lasts forever.

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.

God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.

When they die no one will ever know that once they lived.

Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

You don't know what can happen tomorrow. Life is like a novel, isn't it? It's filled with suspense. You never know what's going to happen until you turn the page.

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

Do you always throw your money away like this?" "Only when I'm in love

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.